former defense secretary bill cohen these are questions that are going to be asked. this doesn't mitigate the tragedy. you've lost 22 members of a team. we're talking about 7% of abunit. this is the most elite, the most valued if you can ascribe value of extraordinarily well prepared men? >> i think there's time enough to question the mission and tactics today. we have to pause long enough to pay tribute to them and their values who are going through great pain. these are a very small band of brothers who obviously have worked together for five, six, ten years. they are a family. this is an enormous loss to them as well as to their personal families who lost a father, son, brother, husband. so we have to pause long enough to take that into account. let's look at the mission. overall why are we there? >> the pace of withdrawal, does this change that at all? >> i think short-term it won't change that. i don't think the president or the military is going to want to look at acting in retreat. i think we have to look at what is the ultimate mission. we were there to elimi

. >> thank you very much, bill cohen. good to see you. >> and president obama has as we've been saying caught a lot of flak from congress over the months for doing too much or too little in libya. so what are lawmakers saying now about the president's strategy with gadhafi have been been toppled? house intelligence chair mike rogers joining us. send me your thoughts on twitter at mitchel reports. follow the show online. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] we've got all you need for back to school with low prices every day on everything. backed by our ad match guarantee. save money. live better. walmart. backed by our ad match guarantee. -woohoo! -yes! ♪ it was the best day ♪ it was the best day yeah! ♪ it was the best day ♪ because of you [echoing] we make a great pair. huh? progressive and the great outdoors. we make a great pair. right, totally. uh... that's what i was thinking. covering the things that make the outdoors great. call or click today. >>> it has been a long and violent road to tripoli. today rebels have effectively t

back in may people are just happy to have a job any job as long as they can pay their bills so perhaps bloomberg why. cohen it makes the most accurate comparison when he writes all main street continues to suffer from high unemployment plunging home prices the financial industry is dancing a jig after paying itself about one hundred fifty billion in compensation in twenty tanks it's true and i know that i've said repeatedly wages in cities like chattanooga are falling rapidly at the exact opposite is happening on wall street so how can we close the gap a warren buffett has a suggestion in an op ed in today's new york times stuck on only the rich. billionaire investor warren buffett is often so the rich should pay higher taxes as a matter of fairness but now he's getting real specific in a new york times op ed today when friends and i have been traveling long enough billionaire friendly congress believe he's saying is if you make over a million dollars in taxable income that should be taxed at a higher flat rate regardless of how you made the money and if it's above ten million dollars that rate should be e

william cohen was president bill clinton's secretary of defense, now the ceo of the cohen group. secretary, good to see you today. >> hello. >> whether he's leading the fight or not, gadhafi's reign in libya appears to be over. if he survives, is there anywhere for him to go? >> i doubt it very much. i think he has sort of made his case that he's going to live and die in libya, and that appears to be the case. i think the ravings we're seeing and calling on his supporters to come forth, they're approaching the mad statements of king lear at this point. i don't know that anyone is going to take him seriously. i think his supporters are seeing the handwriting on the wall, and they're not going to be coming out en masse to support him. i think it's pretty clear the tide has turned substantially and overwhelmingly against him. >> we're getting news now that there's a group of international entities that agree it's time to unfreeze libyan assets. but there's nobody to step into the power vacuum at this point. is it too soon to free up all this libyan money? >> they're going to need mo

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alisyn: stuart cohen, please let us know as you get more developments. bill might be the biggest case of computer spying to date. there is a report showing how hackers infiltrated dozens of u.s. government and corporate networks including sensitive computers for the u.s. government and the u.n. experts are saying the trail of evidence leads to one place and one direct than that is beijing, china. steve centanni is live with us. >> reporter: evidence of hacking by the chinese has been there for the past dozen years, but very sensitive government and government agencies being hacked. here is a partial list of the victims. associated press, united nations, the international olympic committee, a u.s. government agencies including the department of energy, u.s. state and county governments and u.s. defense contractors. of the 72 total agencies and and companies hit, 92 are in the u.s. there they say it's very likely the work of china. the hackers were seeking information on u.s. military systems, satellite communications and natural gas companies. the report says

cohen and supervisor campos. thank you to sfgtv for their ongoing excellence in covering committee proceedings. madam clerk, good morning. please read the first item. >> at one, hearing on the assembly bill 109 regarding the community just this realignment and san francisco of sorting additional inmates into the county jails. supervisor mirkarimi: this is the third hearing administered by this public safety committee over the last seven months, but this is the heart -- the first hearing of its kind since governor brown signed the budget, and there are a number of questions that had remained unanswered in the two previous hearings that we now have more specificity and definition to. we believe that this is a very critical hearing, a milestone, because of all the criminal- justice stakeholders, partners in the city family, who have been working diligently in us preparing for the state prisoner realignment program. we will hear from a number of those stakeholders, and of course, from community members. we're working through the non- profit network as well, because of their ongoing work in excellence in dealing with reentry into restorative justice, rehabilitation programs. but we will also

cohen, you brought it home to me that a lot of the reforms in this bill, probably all of them and they are many, really came from the people out there who have been working on various commissions and committees and worked with those on both sides of the aisle. we really appreciate it. what we were able to do was look at these proposals and do something about this program which was stalin. too many little things. we managed to consolidate and save the things we work hard together on. there were some differences. we gave and we took. it was hard. i think at the end of the day we managed to get this together. i want to make a point here which i know you agree with. the basic highway trust fund is how we fund, that is the bread and butter. it is what all of you referred to and most of the referred to. that is the bread and butter program we are talking about. that is why i appreciate the new ideas that are coming forward. we can't allow those ideas whether it is infrastructure bank or anything else to replace the basic funding mechanism we have here. i know senator baucus has on his plate

. >> coming up, william cohen joins us to discuss the impact of the situation in libya. first, billect big hurricanes, major hurricanes. overnight, this hit puerto rico much harder than they were expecting. they have almost 1 million people without power. the torms storm is moving away from puerto rico. the next stop is the coast of the dominican republic. then it's going to come through the bahamas and look out florida in the southeast of the united states. because this isn't going to take a track over land for that much, we will see it strengthening in the days ahead. by the time we get near florida, it could be a category 2 hurricane. so all of a sudden, we're talking serious business and potential for serious damage and power outages, all of florida and possibly the southeast. it's difficult to tell who could get the landfall. today is a gorgeous day in new england. finally, dry weather. watch out in new england. that hurricane is going to bring a ton of rain to you over this next labor day weekend, especially sunday and monday. keep that in the back of your mind nor the upcomin

cohen, you really brought to home to me, a lot of reforms that are in the bill, probably all of them, there are many, came from the people out there working on various commissions and committees and have worked with us on both sides of the aisle, and we really appreciate it. and what we were able to do was look at all of the proposals and finally doing? -- finally do something about the program which let's just say it was sprawling. it was just too many little things. we managed to consolidate and save the things that we've worked hard together on. there was some differences here. we gave and we took. it was hard. but i think at the end of the day, we managed to get this together. mayor, i want to make a point here which i don't know you agree with, the basic highway trust fund, that's how we fund, that's the great and butter, it's what mr. james referred to, it's what mr. ridley referred to, all of you have referred to it. most of you have referred to it. that's the bread and butter program that we're talking about. and that's why i have appreciate, you know, all of the new idea that

smith: i offer this bill on behalf of myself, the gentleman from north carolina, and on behalf of the gentleman from tennessee, mr. cohen. lately the need to reform administrative law has become urgent. every day the promised economic recovery seems like amy raj. our top priority should be to create jobs. protecting job creators from regulation burdens will help create jobs resm deucing this burden will hasten our economic recovery. the administrative conference of the united states is a small but important institution. it is a narrowly focused, nonpartisan body that offers an outstanding form to -- forum to reform law. this is the heart of the conference's historical mission. they've saved taxpayers tens of millions of dollar. the social security administration saved $85 million to -- by adopting a rule to skip an unnecessary step. the federal deposit insurance corporation saved more than $9 million in the first 18 months of a pite pilot ram implementing a reck meppedation to make better use of resolution. they are encouraged to expand use of video hearings. -- they have saved $59 million by doing more hearings by vide

cohen you really brought it home to me, that a lot of the reforms in this bill, probably all of them, and there are many, really came from the people out there who have been working on various commissions and committees and have worked with us on both sides of the aisle, and we really appreciate it. what we were able to do is look at all of these proposals and finally do something about this program, which -- let's just say it was sprawling. it was too many little things. we managed to consolidate and save the things that we work hard together on. there were differences here. we gave and we took. it was hard, but i think at the end of the day, we managed to get this together. mayor, i want to make a point that i know you agree with. the basic highway trust fund, that is the bread and butter. it is what mr. james referred to, what mr. ridgely referred to, all of you have referred to it. most of you have referred to it. that is the bread and butter program we have talked about. that is why i appreciate all the new ideas that are coming forward. and by the way, support them a. whatever t